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DevLog #16: Track Unread Conversations, Pin the Agent Behind a Trigger, and Manage Cloud Sessions from the Terminal

Keep Track of What You Have Read

• Clear every unread conversation at once. The conversation-history sidebar has a “Mark all read” button that marks every unread conversation you are part of as read in one click. It appears when you have unread conversations.
• See unread conversations from the browser tab. An unread conversation shows a dot on the browser favicon, an unread count in the tab title, and a dot in the history sidebar, so you notice new activity without opening each session.
• Tell your open web chats apart. Each web chat browser tab is titled by its conversation, so several chats open at once are distinguishable at a glance.

See Who Started a Session and Where It Came From

• See who started a session. Web and CLI sessions show the email of the person who started them in the sessions list, which previously appeared only for Slack sessions.
• Read a session’s source and status at a glance. Each row in the sessions list carries a source icon and a status badge (Live, Read only, or released), and Discord sessions now display as “Discord” rather than “Other.”

More Control and Reliability for Scheduled Work

Triggers run Nori’s unattended work, such as cron jobs, webhooks, and scheduled maintenance. This week you gained more control over how they run and more confidence that they finish.

• Pin which coding agent runs a trigger. Choose a specific coding agent (Claude, Codex, Gemini, or Cursor) for each scheduled or webhook trigger, from a dropdown in the dashboard trigger editor or the --agent-provider CLI flag. A trigger uses the fleet default when you leave it blank.
• Keep a trigger running through a credential rotation. When an OAuth token rotates in the middle of a trigger run and the old token stops working, the run re-pushes the current credentials and retries once, so the scheduled work completes.

Fewer Interruptions

• Select the GPT-5.3 Codex Spark model again. Codex Spark is back in the Codex model catalog.
• Start Gemini on Modal-backed session machines. Gemini starts cleanly on Modal session boxes, which now ship Node 22.
• Get tools from the Stripe MCP integration again. Reconnecting the Stripe MCP integration returns its tools. The same fix applies to the Vercel and Zenable MCP integrations.
• Keep Slack sessions going through a restart. A Slack session interrupted mid-turn (for example during a deploy) posts a notice and resumes the interrupted turn, and Slack reconnects reliably after a broker restart.
• Reach earlier messages after a web chat reconnect. The “Load earlier messages” control stays available after a reconnect or refresh, so long conversations remain fully scrollable.

Run and Manage Cloud Sessions from Your Terminal

• Manage cloud sessions with nori cloud. Launching with nori cloud is cloud-aware: local-only commands are rejected, and the detach and reattach messages reflect how the session was started. Quitting an attached cloud session tells you it keeps running in the cloud.
• Reattach without losing your session. When a cloud reattach cannot load its server-side history and no local copy exists, the CLI reports the error and stops, so it does not silently start a new empty session in place of the one you meant to rejoin.
• See cloud reconnect status in the CLI. When a cloud connection drops and recovers, the CLI shows a “Cloud connection lost. Reconnecting” message and a “Cloud connection restored” message, and it reconnects with bounded backoff while preserving your session state.
• Open the attach picker by running nori-handroll with no arguments. A bare nori-handroll invocation opens the local session attach picker, and falls back to a plain listing when it is not attached to a terminal.
• Read real fleet lifecycle states with nori-handroll fleet status. The command reports Claimed, Bootstrapping, Ready, and Recycling states that match the dashboard and Slack vocabulary. Fleet sizing lives in nori-sessions fleet set-size, and nori-handroll fleet scale has been removed.

Sign In Through the Browser

• Finish browser sign-in at login.norisessions.com. The login site can complete the Google sign-in flow: the OAuth exchange accepts its callback URL, and a duplicate CORS header that browsers rejected has been removed.